Bos - ton
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Any help is apprecaited next two weeks doing a nude portrait of beautiful pregnant women never did this before.
Thanks for any suggestions.
G.
Thanks for any suggestions.
G.
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Lighting suggestions for pregnant nude portrait
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Chuck Gardner
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Conventional portrait lighting on a dark background will not be very effective because any frontal lighting scenarios will put a lot of light on the round tummy, making it too much of a center of attention.
Think about how you'd do a still life of a similar shaped object, putting the light behind and to the side to create a shape defining rim highlight, while leaving the bulk of the object in shadow. Think crescent moon, vs full moon.
Alternately, on a white background you can take advantage of the fact back/side rim lighting works really well. A light near camera and high to provide directional "fill" for the front, supplemented with a white reflector down low, with two strong sidelight/kicker keys on each side creating highlights on the sides of the face and body. The trick here is to keep everything except the skintone neutral white so the eye is pulled from the white edges of the background and framing highlights to the middle of the face and tummy. Vignetting to white would work well.
Chuck Gardner
Think about how you'd do a still life of a similar shaped object, putting the light behind and to the side to create a shape defining rim highlight, while leaving the bulk of the object in shadow. Think crescent moon, vs full moon.
Alternately, on a white background you can take advantage of the fact back/side rim lighting works really well. A light near camera and high to provide directional "fill" for the front, supplemented with a white reflector down low, with two strong sidelight/kicker keys on each side creating highlights on the sides of the face and body. The trick here is to keep everything except the skintone neutral white so the eye is pulled from the white edges of the background and framing highlights to the middle of the face and tummy. Vignetting to white would work well.
Chuck Gardner
I think this is an example of what Chuck is talking about. This was lit with an Alien Bee 400 with a 20 degree Honeycomb grid. The "shirt" is just a long piece of black velvet that is artfully wrapped around her.
Here is another setup I had some luck with. 2 lights on this one - 2 Alien Bee 400s one with a beauty dish as key - the other with a shoot through umbrella for fill. The bedding is all just pieces of velvet from a cloth store.
Hope these ideas are helpful!
Adam
Bos - ton
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Excellent!!!
and thank you guys gives me a new way to think about this.
Regards,
and thank you guys gives me a new way to think about this.
Regards,
I think this is an example of what Chuck is talking about. This was
lit with an Alien Bee 400 with a 20 degree Honeycomb grid. The
"shirt" is just a long piece of black velvet that is artfully
wrapped around her.
Here is another setup I had some luck with. 2 lights on this one -
2 Alien Bee 400s one with a beauty dish as key - the other with a
shoot through umbrella for fill. The bedding is all just pieces of
velvet from a cloth store.
Hope these ideas are helpful!
Adam
One thing to consider - pregnant women cannot hold difficult poses for long. I would avoid creating a setup that required a lot of standing.
Adam
Adam
I think this is an example of what Chuck is talking about. This was
lit with an Alien Bee 400 with a 20 degree Honeycomb grid. The
"shirt" is just a long piece of black velvet that is artfully
wrapped around her.
Here is another setup I had some luck with. 2 lights on this one -
2 Alien Bee 400s one with a beauty dish as key - the other with a
shoot through umbrella for fill. The bedding is all just pieces of
velvet from a cloth store.
Hope these ideas are helpful!
Adam
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